Draft.dev CEO, Karl Hughes on Developer Marketing
A very surreal thing happened to me last week. TechCrunch devoted an entire article to my company, Draft.dev.
As a long-time reader of the publication, this was really an honor. Almost all of our clients have been (or want to be) featured on the site at some point, so getting our company into the conversation there was a huge validation.
I can't take too much of the credit here though. I'm really proud of what our team has been able to do as I've handed much of the day-to-day writing, editing, and account management work off to them. It's amazing what a good group of people with repeatable processes can get done.
The other group of people I have to thank are our customers. Several of them actually nominated us for this feature and their testimonials were the reasons we were brought in.
I am still learning a lot about running a successful business, but some days, it almost feels like I've figured some of this out.
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